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The raw milk issue is really about government - and the role that many (not all) consumers want government to play.

The basic problem with raw milk is that unsafe pasture and processing conditions can lead to unsafe milk and the question is - how would you certify such milk as produced and processed under best practice conditions?

Most adults do not drink whole milk because of the fact content. The majority of whole milk is fed to kids.

Do we want raw, unpasteurized milk in the dairy case as long as it is labeled and certified and if we do - is the govt the one to specify labeling and processing conditions and if not the govt, who, if anyone?

The difference between the estimates is that recoveries on a per-well basis have increased substantially since June 2007, which was the cutoff for wells in the USGS analysis, Continental said.

The North Dakota Industrial Commission in January announced recoverable reserves from the Bakken-Three Forks reservoirs could reach 11 billion bbl in North Dakota alone—fivefold the NDIC’s 2008 estimate.

Jack Stark, Continental senior vice-president, exploration, told the NAPE expo in Houston that the Bakken play could become the world’s largest discovery in the last 30-40 years. He attributes this potential to “ingenuity of the oil and gas industry.”

Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, told OGJ that oil companies expanded “what were considered the sweet spots.”

Having spudded vertical oil wells in the upper Bakken during the 1950s, industry now focuses on middle dolomite between the upper and lower Bakken shale. The formation reaches from Canada through North Dakota and Montana with most activity being in North Dakota."

There is more. Oil & Gas Journal also recently ran an article that basically said that Iraq could go to 12 mbd and keep it there for decades and decades....

Also, an interesting company named Titan Oil Recovery has a product/service out that promises to bring up even more oil from existing fields....

"The basic problem with raw milk is that unsafe pasture and processing conditions can lead to unsafe milk and the question is - how would you certify such milk as produced and processed under best practice conditions?"...